Remember You are Worth making a Change!
When it comes to weight loss or being in the need of losing weight due to health issues, self esteem or maybe a New Year’s resolution most of us have been there and experienced the losing weight diets and disasters. My weight has gone from one extreme to the next, either I am too thin and everyone is concerned about my eating habits or I am terribly over weight and everyone is concerned not only with my eating habits but my exercise habits as well. There has been a few times in my life that I have been at that happy medium (the right weight) but for reasons unknown to me either through stress or depression. I would slip and choose either to starve myself or to comfort all my hidden demons with food.
Food has a masterful way of comforting you when you are sad, having self esteem issues or just plain down on yourself. The problem is that it comforts you so well it starts showing its price for being such a "great friend" on your thighs and around your waist among other areas. You start noticing that your jeans that you had worn the week before you now have to lie on the bed on your back to get the zipper up… then they are so tight that you clearly look like you had jumped off your roof to get them on. But hey you’re proud because damn it! You got them on! Miserable in them the rest of the day because you can’t sit or breathe, you decide to change your clothes, telling yourself I’m going to exercise and eat less tomorrow…maybe one Twinkie instead of two and that bowl of Rocky Road ice cream.
We always make excuses to start the next day or the next week because we as overweight people know how hard it is to diet and exercise because we have locked ourselves in a habit and a comfort zone and leaving the comfort zone and quitting a bad habit is a hard thing to do. Not only those reasons, but if you are extremely overweight then your bones hurt while exercising making it hard to continue to exercise whether it is walking, swimming or aerobics. Due to the pain some give up on losing the weight that they desperately want to drop pound by pound.
Lots of us look for that "magic diet pill". You know the one…the one that says the fat just melts off of your body and you will look like you did in High School by the end of the week…yeah…that magic pill. We are all guilty of falling for that scam, me included. In fact I have several bottles of diet pills that were supposed to be "the pill" that melts the fat away. I can assure you, that has not happened and none of those quick fix pills or potions have worked. If they do work it is for a very short period of time and you end up gaining it all back and maybe even more weight.
Over this last year I have started three different diets assuring myself that this time is the time I will follow through with my plan. I lost some weight a minor amount and then for reasons really unknown to me I just quit the diet and exercise plan. My husband is concerned about my health. We are very active people we love the outdoors and riding our four wheeler but too be honest my weight makes it very hard for me to ride the four wheeler with my husband and it really puts hindrances on all of our other outdoor activities.
Being overweight makes being intimate with your partner not as much fun as it could be. It also makes it where you feel very uncomfortable with your lover. You constantly want to turn off the lights or cover yourself up so that they cannot view your body in fear that they are thinking of someone else or just plain wishing you were someone else with a "hot" body. Most likely that is not the case at all, but we as humans have a very overactive imagination…don’t we?
Being overweight drains our self confidence and self esteem while wanting to be intimate. So when our partners may not want to be intimate then it is in our nature of living with such insecurities that we go right to…well I bet if I was thin he’d want me! I too am guilty of thinking that same thing not taking in consideration that my husband is probably just tired from working all day.
My husband has been very supportive of me losing weight and my dieting even though my diets have caused me to be hell on wheels, because I am totally starving. So one day he was giving me some tips on how to lose more weight because I was getting discouraged with working out so hard that I only lost 2.5lbs in 7 days. He told me to take a plastic garbage bag and cut out the arms and the head and wear it like a shirt. I was like what?? He told me seriously, listen to me. So I listened to him and I decided to try the garbage bags exercise treatment.
So the next morning I got a garbage bag out and did what he said with cutting the bag. I put it against my skin, no bra, no tank top, just the bag. I then put a light sweatshirt over the top of the bag. It felt weird and I thought it was kind of funny, but after trying everything else that does not work; I was bound and determined to try this. I went into my living room with my shirt swishing the whole way, Ipod in hand and I started running in place.
I searched through my Ipod for an upbeat song to keep me going and wanting to work out. I came across a country song by Rodney Atkins called "If you’re going through Hell". I started the song it had really good rhythm and the song had meaning to what I was trying to accomplish. When you are trying to lose weight you are going through hell. Losing weight is not an easy task it can be discouraging, depressing at times and downright miserable…so I listen to that song every morning while doing my workouts it encourages me to keep going no matter how much I want to quit or how hard the workout gets I just keep going, I keep on moving and this time I don’t plan on slowing down until I reach my weight goal.
I weighed myself the next morning after using the one garbage bag and exercising for 30 minutes. I was amazed at what the scale said. It said I had lost 2.2lbs since the morning before. Not sure if it was right I stepped off then got back on it again and once again it told me that I had lost 2.2lbs. I couldn’t believe it, he was right! I was so excited that I decided to take another garbage bag and cut the legs out of it and wear it like shorts. I know it sounds silly but it works!
I weighed myself at the end of the 7 day period of using the bags and exercising and I had lost 9lbs. Wow! I could not believe it! In just 2 weeks I had lost 17lbs. I was so happy because the weight loss goal I had set for myself was to lose 25lbs in 6 weeks. In only 2 weeks I was over half way there by doing what my husband had suggested. I felt better, my exercises were getting easier for me to do and I could feel myself having more energy. I played more with my daughter and did not feel tired. I work out in the mornings most of the time. I cut back on my portions and I drink lots of water…I sneak a treat or a diet soda once in awhile but nothing too bad. I am still on the weight loss highway. I have not yet reached my final weight loss goal of 80lbs. I still use the bags, in fact I use a heavier garbage bag and I wear one like a shirt, another like a pair of shorts. Then I wrap my arms up to my shoulders and my legs up to my thighs once that is finished I put on my work out pants and a heavier pullover hooded sweatshirt…when all that is done I am ready for my 30-45 minute workout.
The bags will fill up with excess fluid. You will be amazed at the amount of fluid that your body can lose in a short workout. I have literally dumped water in the sink from my bags. I wash my bags out and turn them inside out to dry so that I can use them again the next morning.
This is no "magic pill" or a "weight loss guarantee" but it is worth trying and you don’t even have to use your credit card to purchase or wait for it to come in the mail. Just go to your local grocery store and buy a box of garbage bags that cost around two bucks.
Trust me it will be the best two bucks you have ever spent. If you read this and decide to try this weight loss method I would love to hear from you, how it is working out for you, and how much weight you may have lost so leave me a comment.
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